Cloud DevOps Engineer

ECS Corporate Services; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Must have US citizenship

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Arlington, VA is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to join our team in office or remote. You will design and operate secure cloud infrastructure on AWS, implement IaC with Terraform and Ansible, and integrate CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD.

You will enforce security controls, work with DISA STIGs and NIST 800-53, support containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes, and collaborate with developers and security teams to push DevSecOps practices forward.

Qualifications

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and IaC in cloud environments.
• Strong Linux and Windows administration experience.
• Experience with AWS and security/compliance standards (NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, DISA STIGs).
• Citizenship and ability to pass Public Trust; degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years general work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy secure cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, Ansible, and/or CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that bake security in from the start.
• Write automation in Ansible and IaC to reduce manual work and ensure consistency.
• Deploy and troubleshoot cloud-native apps across EC2, VPC, EKS, S3, RDS, and related services.
• Implement and maintain security controls including IAM, encryption, network security, SELinux, and kernel hardening.
• Apply DISA STIGs and ensure compliance with NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

DevSecOps

Security controls

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related technical field

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to work in our Arlington, VA office / remote. We're looking for an engineer with strong hands-on experience across Linux, Windows, and cloud-native environments, paired with a deep automation mindset. You've built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, written IaC at scale, and worked in compliance-driven environments where NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and DISA STIGs aren't foreign concepts. They're part of your normal workflow. You operate independently, you communicate well across technical and non-technical stakeholders, and you take ownership of your work from design through deployment. Experience supporting federal customers in air-gapped environments is a meaningful differentiator for this role.

What You'll Do

• Design and deploy secure cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, Ansible, and/or CloudFormation
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD) that bake security in from the start
• Write automation in Ansible coupled with Infrastructure defined by Terraform code to cut down on manual work and keep deployments consistent
• Deploy and troubleshoot cloud-native applications across EC2, VPC, EKS, S3, RDS, AWS Bedrock, and related AWS services
• Implement and maintain security controls including IAM, encryption, network security, SELinux, and kernel hardening
• Apply DISA STIGs and ensure compliance with NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP requirements
• Support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes/EKS
• Collaborate with development and security teams to push DevSecOps practices forward
• Keep documentation current so the next person isn’t starting from scratch

Salary: $130,000 - $160,000

General Description of Benefits

• Must have US citizenship.
• Ability to pass a Public Trust investigation.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of general work experience.
• AWS certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field.
• We will consider candidates without a degree who bring 4 or more years of directly relevant experience or equivalent military training.
• 3+ years in Linux and/or Windows system and network administration (DNS, VPN, firewalls).
• 3+ years with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible.
• 3+ years in Linux and/or Windows system and network administration (DNS, VPN, firewalls).
• 3+ years with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.